Public Safety: Police seek 2 who robbed Arco on University Ave.

LA MESA: Police were looking for two men who robbed an Arco minimart in La Mesa last night.

The pair confronted a clerk about 7 p.m. at the shop on University Avenue, near Parks Avenue, and one pulled out a gun and demanded cash, La Mesa police Lt. Dan Willis said. The men took a drawer from a cash register with an undisclosed amount of money and ran away. No one was injured.

Both robbers were black and appeared to be in their 20s, Willis said. One of the men was tall and fat, wore sunglasses and carried a dark handgun. He also wore a black Chicago White Sox baseball cap, a black nylon head covering, dark pants and a white pullover sweater with a clown on the front.

The other robber had short hair and a light complexion. He wore a long-sleeved black pullover sweat shirt and dark pants.

Police asked anyone with information to call them at (619) 667-1400.

–M.A.

Man binds woman, takes purse with business cash

SAN DIEGO: A robber followed a woman to her Tierrasanta home Friday afternoon, put a knife to her throat, bound her hands and stole her purse, San Diego police said.

The woman had just picked up cash from a relative's automotive business, then drove to her Camino Playa de Oro home, police Sgt. Rich Nemetz said.

A man in workout clothes followed the woman inside and held a knife to her throat, Nemetz said. The man knocked the woman to the floor, bound her hands with a plastic zip-tie and left with her purse and the company cash about 5 p.m.

–P.R.

Suspect arrested after footwear store holdup

SAN DIEGO: Officers arrested a robbery suspect Friday night after a holdup at Famous Footwear in the Midway District.

About $1,500 in cash reportedly was taken from the store on Midway Drive near Kemper Street about 7:25 p.m. The robber was described as a very pale-skinned white man in his early 20s wearing a black trench coat and carrying a black backpack with pink lettering.

A detective saw a man matching that description going into an apartment complex a block or two away, near West Point Loma Boulevard. Officers surrounded an apartment, ordered everyone out and arrested a man identified by witnesses as the robber.

–P.R.

Bandits demand food from pizza deliveryman

SAN DIEGO: Two bandits with an apparent case of the munchies held up a pizza deliveryman at knifepoint early yesterday and demanded pizza, San Diego police said.

The robbers, in their early 20s and wearing dark hooded sweat shirts, confronted the deliveryman on Adobe Falls Road in Del Cerro shortly before 3 a.m. They got away with about $5 worth of food.